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14-Year Old Survived Without Heart For 4 Months
Simmons was attached to a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device for 118 days. All the while the teenager was alert, eating and walking around the hospital room with a blinking photocopier-size ventricular assist device that was attached to her chest to pump and cleanse her blood.
"It
was
like
I
was
a
fake
person,
like
I
didn't
really
exist.
I
was
just
here," the
New
York
Post
quoted
her
as
saying
at
her
triumphant
press
conference
at
Holtz
Children's
Hospital
in
Miami.
"But
I
know
that
I
really
was
here,"
she
added.
Simmons
underwent
a
a
transplant
on
july
2,
at
the
Holtz
Children's
Hospital,
but
after
two
days
they
had
to
do
an
emergency
surgery
to
remove
it
because
it
was
not
functioning
properly
and
risked
a
deadly
rupture.
"In
the
past,
this
situation
could
have
been
lethal," Dr.
Marco
Ricci,
director
of
paediatric
cardiac
surgery
at
the
University
of
Miami,
said.
Ricci modified the substitute heart chambers with a special fabric then hooked the patient's aorta and ventricle to the pumps. "She essentially lived for 118 days without a heart, with her circulation supported only by two blood pumps," Ricci said.
"This, we believe, is the first paediatric patient who has received such a device in this configuration without the heart, and possibly one of the youngest," he added.
As
for
young
Simmons,
it
was
a
tough
time
of
her
life,
as
her
other
organs
were
also
affected."You
never
knew
when
it
would
malfunction,"
she
said.
The
teenager
kept
fighting
back,
and
also
went
for
walks
with
the
device,
while
being
closely
watch
by
four
medical
staffs.
However
the
second
transplant
was
a
success
on
the
29th
October.